Monochorionic twin pregnancies

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 475-494

  Trevett, Thomas ^a   Johnson, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTERY PERFUSION; BIRTH DEFECT; CHORION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CLONING; LASER COAGULATION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PLACENTA DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; UMBILICAL CORD;

FEMALE; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 19744380445     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2005.02.007     Document Type: Review

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